Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe

An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory... In essence these historians begin their analysis 'from below, ' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history. -- Catholic Historical Review. Selections from Quaderni Storici.

Author: Edward Muir
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 08/01/1991
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.02w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780801841835

About the Author
Muir, Edward: - Edward Muir is the Ver Steeg Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is the editor, with Guido Ruggiero, of Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective and Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe.Ruggiero, Guido: - Guido Ruggiero is professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami. He is coeditor and cotranslator of Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance, also published by Johns Hopkins, and author of several books, including Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective; Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance; and The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime, and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice.

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